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After nearly four months of testimony and years of intense media attention, a California jury delivered its verdict on June 13, 2005. Michael Jackson was found not guilty on all charges in one of the most closely watched celebrity trials in modern history: ๐Ÿงต
Michael Jackson leaving the courthouse on Monday after learning that he had been acquitted of all charges. Mr. Jackson then paused to blow kisses to his many fans outside before returning to his estate.

ALT Michael Jackson leaving the courthouse on Monday after learning that he had been acquitted of all charges. Mr. Jackson then paused to blow kisses to his many fans outside before returning to his estate.

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Subsequent documentaries, investigations, and public debates continued to fuel discussion long after the trial concluded.
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Regardless of differing views about the case, the outcome was clear: after a lengthy criminal trial, the jury found Michael Jackson not guilty on all charges brought against him. Follow the page for more daily history! #MichaelJackson #CelebrityTrials #CourtHistory #PopCultureHistory #OnThisDay
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On June 12, 1964, Nelson Mandela stood in a South African courtroom and received a sentence that many expected would remove him from public life forever. Convicted alongside several other anti apartheid activists, he was sentenced to life imprisonment during the Rivonia Trial: ๐Ÿงต
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Mandela remained in prison for 27 years before his release in 1990. Four years later, South Africa held its first fully democratic election, and Mandela became the country's first Black president.
In this May 10, 1994, file photo, Nelson Mandela, left, takes the oath of office in Pretoria, South Africa, to become the country's first black President.

ALT In this May 10, 1994, file photo, Nelson Mandela, left, takes the oath of office in Pretoria, South Africa, to become the country's first black President.

Nelson Mandela and his fellow defendants from the Rivonia Trial in 1994 revisit the lime quarry where they worked while imprisoned at Robben Island after the 1963-1964 trial in Pretoria [File: Louise Gubb/Corbis Saba via Getty Images]

ALT Nelson Mandela and his fellow defendants from the Rivonia Trial in 1994 revisit the lime quarry where they worked while imprisoned at Robben Island after the 1963-1964 trial in Pretoria [File: Louise Gubb/Corbis Saba via Getty Images]

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His life sentence, handed down in 1964, became one of the defining moments in the history of the anti apartheid movement and the long struggle for political equality in South Africa. Follow the page for more daily history! #NelsonMandela #Apartheid #SouthAfrica #ANC #RivoniaTrial #History
A 1995 photograph of President Nelson Mandela, left, with Percy Yutar, the prosecutor in the 1963-1964 Rivonia treason trial, in which Mandela was sentenced to life in prison [File: Louise Gubb/Corbis Saba via Getty Images]

ALT A 1995 photograph of President Nelson Mandela, left, with Percy Yutar, the prosecutor in the 1963-1964 Rivonia treason trial, in which Mandela was sentenced to life in prison [File: Louise Gubb/Corbis Saba via Getty Images]
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